DSM4LIFE-AWD Early 95 Build Thread

[Stmguy42]

looking great!

 

[buhay6]

wow man hats off to you! when I seen all of the rust I was totally shocked that the car was that far gone......then I looked at where your from and it made total sense. Wouldn't happen to be up for doing my body work would you? Canada sucks for cars.
Keep it up man.

 

[DSM4LIFE-AWD]

Rust ? What rust ?

I don't do body work for living, I work in hydraulic . My uncle teach me everything I know about body work. Would I do it for some one else ? No.

Thanks for the words guys

 

[TALON the TSi]

Car looks sick man, i love the black interior.

 

[DSM4LIFE-AWD]

This is how I build cage and this is why I choose my friend Dave from Metalex to weld it in.

Yesterday after work we completed every welds in the back ! All welded 100% all around each pipe. Now you see why it's taking that much time

Ho yeah one last thing, I decided to disard the swing out kit, got a better idea

 

[Blurred Talon]

Looking good man!

 

[DSM4LIFE-AWD]

Thanks Anthony

Well after some long talk we decided to keep the swing out since it'll make my cage legal for the street. The day one cop pull me out than we'll install X bar in the door.

Here's my first gusset, I'll make others on the A and B pillar. Maybe even the roof, will see how much time I want to pass on thant.

Don't know why all my pics in this garage suck ... It's dark as hell, sorry ...

 

[DSM4LIFE-AWD]

We finished placing everything last sunday We would have finish before if the Competition Engineering swing out kit wasn't total crap ! Here's my review, I've write it in the parts review and wanted to post it in my build also. Those kit are already installed in my car but my phone was dead so no pics.

We should be done after 2 hours of welding.


Now my review on the CO swing out kit :

This kit is TOTAL CRAP ! Do not waste your money on this because you will also loose time trying to install them while keeping your cage safe !

The upper part with the lock pin work, the probleme is the lower part. The lower part wrap around your cage, than you drill a hole to make it swing out BUT in the kit they say trim at an angle and let 5/8" from the center of the hole to the end of the tube. Well it's impossible ! It's kind of hard to explain but if the pivot is centered on the pole and the kit wrap around how do you expect to rotate inside without trimming the tickness of the pole. Yes it can work but at the end you have almost nothing left and it would be f*****g stupid to imagine that it's safe.

Dont mind why no'one show how the trim the lower pole on the net !

Here's my solution, I've spend all saturday night machining this. Now it work like it should. You see how I've trim both parts, now imagine with the Competition Engineering, you would need to trim all this on one pipe leaving almost no wall where the hole is ...

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I know I post a lot of pictures but I would have like to see that before starting to install my cage. So that's why I post that much pics

Here's the swing out

And here's my pillar and how it fit, really happy with how they turned out compare to my friends car. They don't block my view at all and that's what I wanted.